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Language and Self-Transformation
A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative
Taschenbuch von Peter G. Stromberg
Sprache: Englisch

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Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their faith and changes their lives. This study looks at the performance of conversion narratives and argues that the performance itself is central to the efficacy of the conversion. Through detailed analysis of a number of conversion narratives, Peter Stromberg shows how these narratives can be understood as a form of ritual, in which believers invoke central emotional conflicts and then attempt to resolve these conflicts by reframing them in terms of the language of Evangelical Christianity. Although the Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example, the approach in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their faith and changes their lives. This study looks at the performance of conversion narratives and argues that the performance itself is central to the efficacy of the conversion. Through detailed analysis of a number of conversion narratives, Peter Stromberg shows how these narratives can be understood as a form of ritual, in which believers invoke central emotional conflicts and then attempt to resolve these conflicts by reframing them in terms of the language of Evangelical Christianity. Although the Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example, the approach in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
Zusammenfassung
This is a study of how self-transformation may occur through the practice of reframing one’s personal experience in terms of a canonical language: that is, a system of symbols that purports to explain something about human beings and the universe they live in. The Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example here, but the approach used in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Character and intention; 3. Boundaries; 4. Dreams; 5. Miracles; 6. Roles; 7. Against a theory of volition; Appendix.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Religion: Christentum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 168
ISBN-13: 9780521031363
ISBN-10: 0521031362
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stromberg, Peter G.
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit: Peter G. Stromberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2008
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
preigu-id: 102120415
Zusammenfassung
This is a study of how self-transformation may occur through the practice of reframing one’s personal experience in terms of a canonical language: that is, a system of symbols that purports to explain something about human beings and the universe they live in. The Christian conversion narrative is used as the primary example here, but the approach used in this book also illuminates other practices - such as psychotherapy - in which people deal with emotional conflict through language.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Character and intention; 3. Boundaries; 4. Dreams; 5. Miracles; 6. Roles; 7. Against a theory of volition; Appendix.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Religion: Christentum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 168
ISBN-13: 9780521031363
ISBN-10: 0521031362
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stromberg, Peter G.
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit: Peter G. Stromberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2008
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
preigu-id: 102120415
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